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About Typo

Being around since March 2005, Typo is (probably) the oldest blogging platform in Rails. It has a full set of feature you would expect from such an engine, powerful SEO capabilities and full themes and plugin
extension. It is available as a gem or source tarball.

2. Get Typo

3. Install Typo

Rename database.yml.example to database.yml and fill in your database credentials for production mode.

Then run:

$ bundle install
$ rake RAILS_ENV=production db:migrate

4. Start / stop Typo

To use / test typo, run:

./script/rails server

Daily use

For a daily use, we reccomend to use Passenger (mod_rails) or Thin / Unicorn with Apache or Nginx.

Typo’s administrative interface is available at http://your.domain.com/admin. You can use this to post articles and change Typo’s configuration settings. For posting new content, you can either use this administrative web interface or a desktop blog editor like MarsEdit or Ecto. For a short list of clients which are confirmed to work please visit http://typosphere.org/wiki/DesktopClients.